If you call me, you'll hear me answer, "Solar IS Civil Defense. The NSA is still listening. And so is Rupert Murdoch but maybe not for long." Usually people laugh. Maybe now they'll stop.
I answer "Solar IS Civil Defense (http://solarray.blogspot.com/...)" because that's what I'm most interesting in promoting and, since I learned about Room 641A in the SF ATT offices back in 2006, added, "The NSA is still listening." When I learned about the Rupert Murdoch News Corpse phone and email hacking a couple of years ago, I tacked on, "And so is Rupert Murdoch but maybe not for long." That "maybe not for long" was a hope that has not yet been realized. I like to roll the "r" on Rupert.
Over the years, I've gone to a lot of events at Harvard or MIT with big name journalists. I've taken the opportunity to ask them about Federal phone and email spying of them. Almost unanimously, they've rejected the idea out of hand. Even Washington Post national security reporter Dana Priest said she didn't believe it was problem for her or her sources.
The only journalist I have heard specifically talk about his distrust of telephonic security is Seymour Hersh. He made a point of mentioning some of his methods to protect his sources at a talk I attended a few years ago.
It is amazing to me that very few journalists drew the connection from Room 641A to Wikileaks to the AP wiretapping to their own communications until Glenn Greenwald's (thanks, Glenn) Guardian story.
Whether anything useful happens now to resuscitate our Constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments is to be determined.
Don't hold your breath and remember, "The NSA is still listening and so is Rupert Murdoch." Big Brother is one thing, Corporate Brother is another.